“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”

“A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.”

“There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.”

“Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.”

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”

“But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.”

“Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight”